Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid...
by jon_richards on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:08AM
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>You'd be hard pressed to sell someone on 'This new phone we made is great, you get the same battery life as before but it weighs 40% more!'
It's actually super easy, you just say things like "solid construction", "substantial", and "build quality".
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid...
by rangibaby on Friday March 03, 2017 @01:51AM
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> It's actually super easy, you just say things like "solid construction", "substantial", and "build quality".
"Beats By Dre headphones teardown finds metal parts included just to add weight"
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid...
by Findy3ti on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:04AM
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I know of a hardware manufacture who used to put concrete into their DVD players to give them that quality heavy feel
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid...
by marcusjt on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:21AM
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Are you sure that wasn't to dampen vibrations which might affect (or even themselves be caused by) spinning the disk and movements of the read head? (Same reason there's concrete blocks in the base of a washing machine)
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid...
by 2muchcoffeeman on Friday March 03, 2017 @01:35AM
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The iPhone 4 with the steel frame was great.
A significant amount of that weight is the battery, so making the battery 2.5x heavier would make the phone substantially heavier, even with the same overall charge. You'd be hard pressed to sell someone on 'This new phone we made is great, you get the same battery life as before but it weighs 40% more!'
I suppose the question is, in which cases would people be willing to accept a lower charge capacity if their phone could charge to full in, say, minutes rather than hours? I feel as though those USB battery packs that are everywhere these days would be a great candidate; plug it into the wall for a few minutes and you're fully charged, and you can charge anything else from there.